Golda Schultz: ‘Back to that conversation between performer and artist’

The South African soprano talks about the inspiration behind her upcoming NCH performance

Ellen Jansson on discovering Fanny Mendelssohn: ‘It’s deeply personal’

Clonmel’s Finding a Voice festival of music by women composers is going online this year

Philip Glass: ‘Everyone needs a technique, whether they’re a plumber or a cook’

The composer on febrile 1960s New York, working day jobs into his 40s and the term ‘minimalism’

Great Music in Irish Houses brings the programme up to date

All-percussion concert with Colin Currie and tributes to John O’Conor veered from the classical core

What’s new? Irish festivals reveal the state of contemporary music

Let’s see how new works and living, Irish and female composers fare in upcoming programmes

Evolution of women composers a missing link in new concert series

Why does the NCH need €20,000 before it will bother exploring music by women?

Classical music review: Choir of King’s College short on Christmas spirit

Plus: a biography of Samuel Beckett’s musical cousin John Beckett

Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble: Astor Piazzolla Tango!

An early music duo, and ‘Carmen’ by way of ‘Tallafornia’

Early music was on the agenda at two concerts, while OTC’s ‘Carmen’ was defiantly contemporary